"Books and reality and art are the same kind of thing for me." One
of the most famous artists in history, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
was also a man with another powerful passion--for books. An
insatiable reader, Van Gogh spent his life hungrily consuming as
many books as he could. He read, reread, and copied out books in
Dutch, English, and French. He knew many passages by heart from
works by Dickens, Zola, Shakespeare, and Maupassant, among many
others. As he wrote to his brother, Theo, in one of their hundreds
of letters: "I have a more or less irresistible passion for books."
In Vincent's Books, Mariella Guzzoni explores Van Gogh's life as a
voracious bookworm, noting what he read, what he wrote about, and
how his love of reading influenced his art. She walks us through
his life, chapter by chapter: from the religious aspirations of his
early adulthood, to his decision to be a painter, to the end of his
tragically short life. He moved from Holland to Paris to Provence;
at each moment, ideas he encountered in books defined and guided
his thoughts and his worldview. Van Gogh wrote with eloquence and
insight about what he was reading in his letters to Theo, referring
to at least two hundred authors. Books and readers are frequent
subjects of his paintings, and Guzzoni highlights over one hundred
of these works, such as Still Life with Bible in the Van Gogh
Museum and his vivid paintings of l'Arlesienne. A gorgeously
illustrated biography that will appeal to any booklover, Vincent's
Books takes us on a fresh, fascinating journey through the pages of
a beloved artist's life. Explore Van Gogh's musings on his favorite
writers, including Thomas a Kempis, Charles Blanc, Honore de
Balzac, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Guy de Maupassant, Charles
Dickens, Erckmann-Chatrian, Homer, Victor Hugo, Pierre Loti, Jules
Michelet, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emile Zola
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